Aria: All These Dyings; thoughts of Marianne Moore from In Distrust of Merits, 1942 Matches base text
Language: English
All the world is an orphans home Can there never be peace Without bitter sorrow? Without plaintive cries from the dying, The cries for help that never come? Oh still and quiet form upon the Ageless dust, I cannot look upon thy face and yet I must! If all these great dyings, The endless agonies and Bleeding wounds and Aching hearts can Teach us how to live in peace Then all these dyings, All these sorrows were Not in vain.
Inspired by stanza 6 of Thomas Moore's In Distrust of Merits.
Composition:
- Set to music by Gloria Coates (b. 1938), "Aria: All These Dyings; thoughts of Marianne Moore from In Distrust of Merits, 1942", 1971-2 [ voice, strings, piano, and percussion ], from Cantata da Requiem - WW II Poems for Peace (originally titled Voices of Women in Wartime), no. 6
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Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani
This text was added to the website: 2009-11-16
Line count: 17
Word count: 80